Are you looking for a quick way to learn how to navigate the night sky? Let Senior Editor Michael Bakich narrate your ride through the sky. In this series, he will profile constellations one-by-one, ...

A new infrared image from ESO's VISTA survey telescope reveals an extraordinary landscape of glowing tendrils of gas, dark clouds and young stars within the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn).

This dramatic infrared space wallpaper shows the nearby star formation region Monoceros R2, located some 2700 light-years away in the constellation of Monoceros (the Unicorn). The picture was created ...

As the familiar wintertime constellations begin setting earlier each evening, it’s our last chance to catch some of the deep-sky treasures they contain. The constellation Monoceros lies east of better ...

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[Cosmos Photo Essay ⑫] The star brightened rapidly in a phase of its evolution When the sun sets in May, the constellation Monoceros appears in the southwestern sky, disappearing below the western ...

When your constellation is actually named after a unicorn, there are certain expectations of beauty and grandeur you’ve just got to live up to. And this particular star-forming region inside the ...

If you look at any star atlas published before 1930, you will see what appear to be random lines defining the constellations. Before this date, constellation boundaries had not been formalized. Modern ...

In 1995, the Alpha Monocerotids produced 400 meteors per hour. The meteors radiate from Monoceros, a faint constellation that is Greek for unicorn. The best viewing conditions are expected across the ...